Marx to Joseph Dietzgenin Petersburg

[London, 9 May 1868]

...
When I have cast off the burden of political economy, I shall write a ‘Dialectic’.
The true laws of dialectics are already contained in Hegel, though in a mystical
form. What is needed is to strip away this form...

First
published in Der Volksstaat, Nr. 3, 9 January 1876. Printed according to
the newspaper. Published in English for the first time.